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rights movement you're seeing a number of i think of them as fronts and a long campaign for real democracy in this country there's a political front there's an electoral front and there is a legal front and i think that what we're seeing with the montana supreme court decision is just a harboring or of things to come to and and i mean arguably in eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the supreme court ruled the people in that case african-americans were property and then in twenty town the supreme court ruled the property was people it's like the mirror writers of each other and both provoked an incredible backlash and i think a both cases the court didn't expect that backlash but you know anyhow we'll see have we found or has the montana supreme court found a huge loophole in the citizens united case that any case any state or for that matter even federal legislator legislators could exploit by explaining the demonstrating the compelling interest you just spoke of. unfortunately probably not because ultimately i suspect this case goes to the u.s. supreme court and we know what this rober
rights movement you're seeing a number of i think of them as fronts and a long campaign for real democracy in this country there's a political front there's an electoral front and there is a legal front and i think that what we're seeing with the montana supreme court decision is just a harboring or of things to come to and and i mean arguably in eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the supreme court ruled the people in that case african-americans were property and then in twenty town the...
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community finally gets its full civil rights and will be in the president's leadership until victory is achieved but just as important will also need more grassroots activism pressuring lawmakers and even pressure in the president to go another step further here's the bigger picture on this president obama yesterday said gay couples should be able to get married go to him for that but he also said it's a state's right issue bad on him for that we've we've heard that before for example back in one thousand nine hundred one tony pace and mary cox were arrested for having sex in alabama the crime was that she was white and he was black the way they were born they were both sentenced to the state penitentiary for two years under alabama's miseducation laws simply because of how they were born they appealed that to the u.s. supreme court in eight hundred eighty three in a case that as these verses alabama the supreme court of the united states two generations after the civil war was over will the tony pace marie cox she go to prison for having had sex while being born are different races
community finally gets its full civil rights and will be in the president's leadership until victory is achieved but just as important will also need more grassroots activism pressuring lawmakers and even pressure in the president to go another step further here's the bigger picture on this president obama yesterday said gay couples should be able to get married go to him for that but he also said it's a state's right issue bad on him for that we've we've heard that before for example back in...
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supreme court three years after lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act it said that people can't be discriminated against simply because of how they're born in the supreme court agreed marriage they said is one of the basic civil rights of man fundamental to our very existence and survival to deny this fundamental freedom and so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes is surely to deprive all the states citizens of liberty without due process of law the fourteenth amendment the supreme court went on to say requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by and videos racial discrimination under our constitution the freedom to marry or not to marry a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the state another word you can't be denied the right to marry somebody just because of how you were born that's the essence of what president obama said yesterday and he's right it's nothing but pure bigotry to deny people who love each other the right to get married just because of how they were born whe
supreme court three years after lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act it said that people can't be discriminated against simply because of how they're born in the supreme court agreed marriage they said is one of the basic civil rights of man fundamental to our very existence and survival to deny this fundamental freedom and so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes is surely to deprive all the states citizens of liberty without due process of law...
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oh well quite plainly of the fact that our civil liberties our constitutional rights were stripped away from us from committing no criminal acts but doing nothing but exercising our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom to assemble those are right for the city of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but cities all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national level use all of the force in its power to take away that constitutional right for many thousands of people who are exercising their right to protest for very legitimate reason because of the jobs crisis because of the student debt crisis and many other issues and so we're fighting on this front to make sure that the protest activities of every single person in this country are protected as they should be and that's really the reason we're fighting this lawsuit and michael if you were there can you set the scene for us what was the raid like really and i mean can you also describe as one of the things
oh well quite plainly of the fact that our civil liberties our constitutional rights were stripped away from us from committing no criminal acts but doing nothing but exercising our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom to assemble those are right for the city of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but cities all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national...
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and protect the interest of their community against all odds joins me now to talk about activism civil disobedience and his new documentary film grasp the nettle activists and documentary filmmaker dean dean thank you so much for coming on the show thank you for having me avi so let's let's first start off by talking about dale farm i don't think a lot of people know what it was as a traveler community in britain you change yourself to a concrete barrel talk about what this community was and the a vixen and why you chose to take this kind of direct action as a form of protest. was the largest travel of community of its kind in europe. what we have was a conservative government in this country and i love to conservative government that wanted to forty two to fifty families from the land. and to sincerely keep enough of this land that they are. in order to protect their most valuable asset which is around and the reason they want to do that is because they felt that they have the remit from the british public because there's a lot of negative stereotypes about travellers and the way they
and protect the interest of their community against all odds joins me now to talk about activism civil disobedience and his new documentary film grasp the nettle activists and documentary filmmaker dean dean thank you so much for coming on the show thank you for having me avi so let's let's first start off by talking about dale farm i don't think a lot of people know what it was as a traveler community in britain you change yourself to a concrete barrel talk about what this community was and...
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been forgotten and so now because we've had the sixty force voting rights act and sixty four civil rights act in sixty five voting rights act we think that progress that progress has been made in that so now we don't need to engage in those politics anymore but now is the definite time that we need to as we see the rise of the tea party as we listen to mitt romney as we see that that ryan's budget is looking to cut social programs we have to be in the streets advocating championing championing ensuring that our interests are addressed instead of expecting that someone is going to do so what would you say to people who look at obama and say i voted for him because he's black because that in itself is just such an iconic symbol of progress across the world that we elected the first african-american president and i will continue to vote for and just because he is black even now he's not really making any overtures to change policy that i would say you get what you vote for and you voted for symbolism and you got symbolism now but politics again has to be more than symbolic it has to be based
been forgotten and so now because we've had the sixty force voting rights act and sixty four civil rights act in sixty five voting rights act we think that progress that progress has been made in that so now we don't need to engage in those politics anymore but now is the definite time that we need to as we see the rise of the tea party as we listen to mitt romney as we see that that ryan's budget is looking to cut social programs we have to be in the streets advocating championing championing...
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roe v wade his belief that the equal protection clause did not apply to women his opposition to the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty four his belief that corporations have more rights than people and a whole parcel of issues that then lead the senate to reject him he is mitt romney's chief judicial advisor and i think if you want to understand what mitt romney would do you need to look at the last ten years or so of the right wing do real men of the supreme court beginning with bush v gore which was a masterpiece of judicial activism a supreme court intervening in a democratic process to stop the vote take that out to citizens united decision you have written and talked a lot about which unleashed corporate treasury money into our politics you would see those policies those issues ramped up exponentially in a mitt romney supreme court would you expect to hear challenges to roe v wade as well yes i think you'd hear challenges to roe v wade i think you'd see an attempt to gut the voting rights act i think you'd see the real culmination of the forty plus year campaign to t
roe v wade his belief that the equal protection clause did not apply to women his opposition to the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty four his belief that corporations have more rights than people and a whole parcel of issues that then lead the senate to reject him he is mitt romney's chief judicial advisor and i think if you want to understand what mitt romney would do you need to look at the last ten years or so of the right wing do real men of the supreme court beginning...
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didn't support the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty four and believes corporations are people you will see a far more extremist court that i think will damage ordinary people who are trying to organize who are trying to get access to the courts for class action suits and of course will unleash even more polluted money into an already polluted political system just a few months before richard nixon put him on the u.s. supreme court list whole infamously or famously wrote a memo to his neighbor and close friend the president the chairman of the u.s. chamber of commerce. big. sickly the conservative takeover of america and a big piece of that was taking over the courts we're seeing increasingly court elections judicial elections in the united states in many cases the didn't used to be elections in many of the states now they're being elected and that were never partisan before that are now having enormous amounts of money pumped into it this goes beyond just the supreme court does it not katrina. i think. we're looking at the culmination of the lewis powell memo. you h
didn't support the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty four and believes corporations are people you will see a far more extremist court that i think will damage ordinary people who are trying to organize who are trying to get access to the courts for class action suits and of course will unleash even more polluted money into an already polluted political system just a few months before richard nixon put him on the u.s. supreme court list whole infamously or famously wrote a...
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rights act a ruling that mr knight's attorney stuart koch rain says was completely justified he went on to say this we do think the iowa supreme court got it completely right our position has always been mrs nelson's was never terminated because of her gender she was terminated because of concerns her behavior was not appropriate in the workplace she's an attractive lady dr knight found her behavior to be and her dress to be inappropriate but here's another interesting moment from this case according to the iowa supreme court the justices said that dr knight and knowledges he once told mrs nelson that if she saw his pants bolding she would know that her clothing was too revealing and then there's this this is a picture of the iowa supreme court notice anything off here well in case it except your i the supreme court is an all male panel leading many to say that these seven to zero unanimous ruling in favor of mr knight was unfair and discriminatory in and of itself. this isn't the first case of its kind in iowa but it is an interesting ruling on the iowa supreme court's part and this
rights act a ruling that mr knight's attorney stuart koch rain says was completely justified he went on to say this we do think the iowa supreme court got it completely right our position has always been mrs nelson's was never terminated because of her gender she was terminated because of concerns her behavior was not appropriate in the workplace she's an attractive lady dr knight found her behavior to be and her dress to be inappropriate but here's another interesting moment from this case...
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rights groups because they got what they wanted which in essence was making the vote fair because in maryland the two districts where most of the prisons are located at the first in the six their majority districts and so obviously when african-american prisoners leave when they get out of jail they're not going to be voting in those districts they're going to be going back to their home address their legal address and voting so it's an extreme league. the big deal and what the state did is it basically said you know we're going to count their last you know address where they lived as the address where they live in some other states are following suit is that right yes delaware i think california and there's probably going to be others that are going to be following now that the supreme court has ruled favorably on exactly what they've done and of course it's not just redistricting and congressional voting districts let's talk about some other efforts that have been going on in several states in this country it seems to me mostly battleground states like florida and ohio. things have
rights groups because they got what they wanted which in essence was making the vote fair because in maryland the two districts where most of the prisons are located at the first in the six their majority districts and so obviously when african-american prisoners leave when they get out of jail they're not going to be voting in those districts they're going to be going back to their home address their legal address and voting so it's an extreme league. the big deal and what the state did is it...
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and so using as an example civil rights in the sixty's look if the federal government would have left civil rights to the states in the sixty's would we still have segregated public bathrooms in some states in the south i think perhaps that we might so federal government has a has a constitutional or has a has a mandate to govern under strict adherence to the u.s. constitution i think marriage equality is a constitutionally guaranteed right that the federal government needs to apply all right gary johnson presidential nominee for the libertarian party also former got former governor of new mexico thanks for coming on the show today. well the alona show is coming up in just a half hour let's check in with a lot to see what's on the agenda today hello there alona hi christine we've got a great show for tonight as you know over the weekend while the nato summit was going on in chicago there also were massive protests and that included more than forty veterans who spoke out against the wars in iraq and afghanistan and actually took their service medals and through that got rid of them you
and so using as an example civil rights in the sixty's look if the federal government would have left civil rights to the states in the sixty's would we still have segregated public bathrooms in some states in the south i think perhaps that we might so federal government has a has a constitutional or has a has a mandate to govern under strict adherence to the u.s. constitution i think marriage equality is a constitutionally guaranteed right that the federal government needs to apply all right...
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and so using as an example civil rights in the sixty's look if the federal government would have left civil rights to the states in the sixty's would we still have segregated public bathrooms in some states in the south i think perhaps that we might so federal government has a has a constitutional or has a has a mandate to govern under strict adherence to the u.s. constitution i think marriage equality is a constitutionally guaranteed rights that the federal government needs to apply all right gary johnson presidential nominee for the libertarian party also former got former governor of new mexico thanks for coming on the show today arlen that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america or our web site r t dot com slash usa. admission free clinic ation free transfer charges free. range mentioned free risk free studio child free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media down to r t don tom. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source ma
and so using as an example civil rights in the sixty's look if the federal government would have left civil rights to the states in the sixty's would we still have segregated public bathrooms in some states in the south i think perhaps that we might so federal government has a has a constitutional or has a has a mandate to govern under strict adherence to the u.s. constitution i think marriage equality is a constitutionally guaranteed rights that the federal government needs to apply all right...
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federal civil rights law now this happened outside of atlanta is this an isolated case or to your knowledge has it happened anywhere else. there are recent reports by the national iranian american council that there have been reports of other incidents also in california and i believe virginia so it isn't seen as an isolated incident at all and in fact stepping outside of the united states i know through friends and contacts that i have in the netherlands that as we know the e.u. sanctions are going to go into effect the oil embargo july first and already there the interpretation of those sanctions have led to a suspension of visas for iranian students studying in the netherlands and so you know that your group is and he's saying she and. sanctions ultimately that they're put in place to achieve these foreign policy goals to affect the regime or to target the regime but would you say in reality they affect ordinary iranians. absolutely i mean my background is an individual that actually opposed to sanctions against iraq and i traveled to iraq before the invasion in two thousand and two and
federal civil rights law now this happened outside of atlanta is this an isolated case or to your knowledge has it happened anywhere else. there are recent reports by the national iranian american council that there have been reports of other incidents also in california and i believe virginia so it isn't seen as an isolated incident at all and in fact stepping outside of the united states i know through friends and contacts that i have in the netherlands that as we know the e.u. sanctions are...
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the civil rights movement where in one nine hundred fifty five when the montgomery bus boycott happened there wasn't a congress that could pass the civil rights and voting rights act and there wasn't a president who would sign it but over the course of a decade of agitation and pressure on the political powers. a new sort of congress was elected a new sort of president and people who were amenable to the kinds of changes that the civil rights protesters were demanding so i think that that's the goal is is far as electoral politics is to exert constant pressure over a matter of years and create a new sort of political formulation where what is currently a radical idea becomes a mainstream idea that has a right and a congress that they can. sorry to cut you off there we're just we're just at a time but i appreciate you coming on the show that was very. independent journalists. well that's going to do it for the news sports and i be sure to stick around the big picture is coming up at the top of the hour at the racially charged case of a seventeen year old african-american who gunned down
the civil rights movement where in one nine hundred fifty five when the montgomery bus boycott happened there wasn't a congress that could pass the civil rights and voting rights act and there wasn't a president who would sign it but over the course of a decade of agitation and pressure on the political powers. a new sort of congress was elected a new sort of president and people who were amenable to the kinds of changes that the civil rights protesters were demanding so i think that that's the...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. athat's what the plan georged allen supports... would cost our economy. newspapers called it "economically destructive." like allen's votes to give tax breaks to companies... that ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would... help big corporations, devastating the middle class. allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. virginia can't afford to go back to george allen. the democratic senatorial campaign committee... is responsible for the content of this advertising. what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. anncr: no matter what mitt romney's ads say. we know what he'll do.
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. athat's what the plan georged allen supports... would cost our economy. newspapers called it "economically destructive." like allen's votes to give tax breaks to companies... that ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would... help big corporations, devastating the middle class. allen even voted against tax breaks for small...
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admitted that the government needs to catch up with the civil society right here as an out some political concessions but do you have the feeling that putin is ready to to go further in liberalizing really the society the political life force on for unfortunate for children all so you're a pessimist i'm pursuing this because you know square and soccer are going you know be a dog. five very simple demands to the authorities demand to free political prisoners we have now about forty people including khodorkovsky and libya in prisons on absolutely fabricated fabricated. number two we don't agree with the results of parliamentary elections and we don't see real investigation on thousands investigating investigate alleged fraud number three it's a wide demand of deep and complex political reforms registration of opposition parties . free elections a new formation of electoral in this is this something is being done that will talk or will will talk a little later about your own party that that seeming to bite it was not really what it is not to reduce it in until now it is not ready but somethi
admitted that the government needs to catch up with the civil society right here as an out some political concessions but do you have the feeling that putin is ready to to go further in liberalizing really the society the political life force on for unfortunate for children all so you're a pessimist i'm pursuing this because you know square and soccer are going you know be a dog. five very simple demands to the authorities demand to free political prisoners we have now about forty people...
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rights lawsuit from a two thousand and seven felony arrest for videotaping police he was watching these police on camera out roughing up a suspect i guess i'm wondering kate i mean what is it going to take for police to simply say you know instead of trying to make more strict laws why don't we just try not to be so brutal in the wrong circumstances. well i agree it's a good it's a good goal to have but i would say what is the best means to get there and it's it's not through the internal review board or a citizen supplants or even filing a complaint with the department itself is just for each individual to realize that nobody else has the right to dictate or regulate their lives as long as they're not negatively infringing on somebody else's rights and so that really speaks to the issue of again policing today and how it's the perverse incentives on which it's actors operates and the difference is in the one or two party consent you mentioned that to me just shows how arbitrary some i differentiate between long legislation loving natural commoner god's law and legislation being man mad
rights lawsuit from a two thousand and seven felony arrest for videotaping police he was watching these police on camera out roughing up a suspect i guess i'm wondering kate i mean what is it going to take for police to simply say you know instead of trying to make more strict laws why don't we just try not to be so brutal in the wrong circumstances. well i agree it's a good it's a good goal to have but i would say what is the best means to get there and it's it's not through the internal...
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with the civil rights movement and the great society so i don't think it's until you're really going to see until occupy really becomes a kind of for middle political power that really can essentially get control over the political agenda and start legislating then i think you'll begin to see the beginnings of a conservative backlash but we just haven't seen it yet you argue the you know conservatism is basically a reactionary force against democratic movements and. that being the case this country was born in revolution our founding principles were revolutionary and a lot of the rhetoric i'm hearing right now from from the republican right in the primaries doesn't sound like an appeal to constitutional principles although it's wrapped in that it sounds like an appeal to articles of confederation principles when individual states were actually sovereign and and. so if if there is some truth to that perception could it be that throughout its history in modern america the conservative movement has been fundamentally in opposition to the american revolution the revolutionary principles
with the civil rights movement and the great society so i don't think it's until you're really going to see until occupy really becomes a kind of for middle political power that really can essentially get control over the political agenda and start legislating then i think you'll begin to see the beginnings of a conservative backlash but we just haven't seen it yet you argue the you know conservatism is basically a reactionary force against democratic movements and. that being the case this...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. imillion dollars for marylanded one hundred schools.ty... question seven will double it. rushern baker: question seven will add table games and... a new casino, generating millions of dollars... every year, without raising taxes. leggett: and audits will ensure the money goes... where it's supposed to. more jobs, and millions for schools....
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came in the civil rights era to challenge the status quo acknowledging the blatant racism in our economy in one nine hundred sixty one president john f. kennedy signed executive order one zero nine two five which created the committee on equal employment opportunity and force to businesses that were receiving federal funds to remove any racial biases in their hiring decisions in that executive order for the first time the words affirmative action were used to describe the steps that should be taken to give minorities equal standing in the economy than in one thousand nine hundred sixty four the civil rights act was signed into law prohibiting all kinds of the discrimination based on race color religion or national origin but president lyndon johnson knew that wouldn't be enough to remedy more than three hundred years of racial subjugation and nine hundred sixty five he gave a speech at howard university on why affirmative action is necessary saying quote you do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying now you are free to go where you want to to do as you desire and choose the leade
came in the civil rights era to challenge the status quo acknowledging the blatant racism in our economy in one nine hundred sixty one president john f. kennedy signed executive order one zero nine two five which created the committee on equal employment opportunity and force to businesses that were receiving federal funds to remove any racial biases in their hiring decisions in that executive order for the first time the words affirmative action were used to describe the steps that should be...
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and oppressive police brutality but jeff is no stranger to civil rights defense he represents other civil rights groups and washington and has worked at the bill of rights defense committee filing for your requests and litigating a case against two fusion centers in washington d.c. centers that collect personal information and make it available to local state and federal agencies with no transparency and little no oversight so for his brave efforts toward protecting our fast eroding constitutional rights for me to lawyer that standing up for what's right in the face of so much that's wrong for truly representing the people whose voices have long been suppressed jeffrey light is our hero of the day so he's the hero who's the villain of all this was kind of a no brainer i've ever heard of congressman scott taylor's are well it was recently revealed that this lesser known tennessee congressman cheated on his wife back in two thousand and one a two hundred page memorandum of court records a deja relays divorce proceeding included a transcript of a telephone conversation between danger l
and oppressive police brutality but jeff is no stranger to civil rights defense he represents other civil rights groups and washington and has worked at the bill of rights defense committee filing for your requests and litigating a case against two fusion centers in washington d.c. centers that collect personal information and make it available to local state and federal agencies with no transparency and little no oversight so for his brave efforts toward protecting our fast eroding...
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rights movement i think we can in the information age make them move much quicker and say well there was a time when free speech was so important we would allow corporations to have undue influence over our. in our elections but you know we did we were promised a republican for we could keep it as their influence famous saying yes and and sometimes the supreme court makes a decision and then with better information with more information they revisit that decision and i think that was what implicitly kennedy was saying and majority decision that we want to pounce upon and that's the public in the court of public opinion is that the perception of corruption in this republican primary recently right now i think there is i think you're absolutely right eric thanks so much for me was. i didn't show up on thursday february twenty third at noon in front of the supreme court tomorrow right here in washington d.c. join the movement or get money out of politics go to coffee party usa dot com for more information. in other news look up in the sky and you're bound to see a few clouds a bird or t
rights movement i think we can in the information age make them move much quicker and say well there was a time when free speech was so important we would allow corporations to have undue influence over our. in our elections but you know we did we were promised a republican for we could keep it as their influence famous saying yes and and sometimes the supreme court makes a decision and then with better information with more information they revisit that decision and i think that was what...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray is announcing big changes to speed camera fines which many drivers feel are excessive. here's the breakdown of the proposed changes. if you're going 10 miles over, the final drop from 75 to 50 bucks, 11 to 15 miles over the limit, fines will drop from 125 bucks to 100 bucks. if you're caught driving 25 miles per hour over the speed limit, the fine goes up 250 to $300. this change comes as city council considers a plan that would slash fines even more. fox 5's matt ackland has this story. >> with a council committee ready to take on those high speed camera fines next monday, mayor gray unveiled his own plan. >> we continue to work on this up through including yesterday and we are ready to announce the direction that we are going to be pursuing. >> under a plan proposed by council members mary cheh and tommy wells basically all speed camera fines would be lowered to
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wasn't a congress that could pass the civil rights and voting rights act in there wasn't a president who would sign it but over the course of a decade of agitation and pressure on the political powers. a new sort of congress was elected a new sort of president and people who were amenable to the kinds of changes that the civil rights protesters were demanding so i think that that's the goal is as far as electoral politics is to exert constant pressure over a matter of years and create a new sort of political formulation where what is currently a radical idea becomes a mainstream idea that has a right and a congress that they can very. very thread at that time but i appreciate you coming on to share that with that independent journalist. well coming up next is the alone a show that's coming up in just a half hour let's check in with a lot to see what's on today's agenda ok let's go right to you today elena. we're going to take a look at a couple of the trials that are going to be coming up at guantanamo bay in the military commissions will break down just how it is that the government
wasn't a congress that could pass the civil rights and voting rights act in there wasn't a president who would sign it but over the course of a decade of agitation and pressure on the political powers. a new sort of congress was elected a new sort of president and people who were amenable to the kinds of changes that the civil rights protesters were demanding so i think that that's the goal is as far as electoral politics is to exert constant pressure over a matter of years and create a new...
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rights including the freedom of speech on the right to protest now and it's for a fourth month it looks like the protests are only growing it's being called the maple spring and it's turning into an all out citizens revolt now the bulk of the protests are happening here in quebec while many of the protest. peaceful eighty four people were arrested last night and. demonstration law has only inflame tensions there and while the maple spring marches past its one hundredth day protesters aren't just happening to our north. down south in mexico thousands of university students union workers and farmers have taken to the streets to demand greater freedom of speech and also to protest the possible return of power by the institutional revolutionary party that's being called the mexican spring and it looks like there is no end in sight so what exactly is going on here let's go to canada now where are to correspondent diana a guy h. as you can is in the midst of all the action in quebec to bring us this report. it's not just about to lucian heights anymore even many of those who didn't care much
rights including the freedom of speech on the right to protest now and it's for a fourth month it looks like the protests are only growing it's being called the maple spring and it's turning into an all out citizens revolt now the bulk of the protests are happening here in quebec while many of the protest. peaceful eighty four people were arrested last night and. demonstration law has only inflame tensions there and while the maple spring marches past its one hundredth day protesters aren't...
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rights leaders here willing to step over the legal line considering that are in appropriate legal why and you're willing to pay the price for joins absolutely going to be people pleading guilty to yes or yes well i'm pleading guilty because you know what i what i hope to point out during the hearing and now is is that why is much more important about what exactly i said the fact that you have to commit an act of civil disobedience to have the ear of congress is this is reprehensible but you know the super committee was a super secret committee they met in secret what they they said was secret my own congressman i did not have access to the super committee and so after listening to this hearing for for over an hour and realizing the people's opinion was not being heard i thought here's an opportunity where i can speak and i took advantage of it and i'm glad i did i wish you know there were more opportunities but this is this is so sad that it's come to this that you have to commit a crime in order to have the ear of of congress well at the time you said and even now the majority of ame
rights leaders here willing to step over the legal line considering that are in appropriate legal why and you're willing to pay the price for joins absolutely going to be people pleading guilty to yes or yes well i'm pleading guilty because you know what i what i hope to point out during the hearing and now is is that why is much more important about what exactly i said the fact that you have to commit an act of civil disobedience to have the ear of congress is this is reprehensible but you...
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it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> the sewage treatment system that serves the vast majority of homes in howard county is now back in operation, but tens of millions of gallons of raw consumer discharged into the little patuxent river before electricity was restored to the plant. tonight county officials are asking some very pointed questions. fox 5's john henrehan is live at the treatment facility. john, i imagine residents have some questions and concerns, too. >> reporter: tha little heated comments today. here are the headlines. the water system was never in jeopardy in howard county. they're entirely separate systems. the water was always safe to drink. the good news is this sewage treatment facility is back in operation. the bad news is up to 25 million gallons of untreated sewage went into the chesapeake bay watershed before this place came back online. officials in howard county call this complex their water reclamation plant because after sewage
it's about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. join me in supporting question 6. it's the right thing to do. >>> the sewage treatment system that serves the vast majority of homes in howard county is now back in operation, but tens of millions of gallons of raw consumer discharged into the little patuxent river before electricity was restored to the plant. tonight county officials are asking some very pointed questions. fox 5's john henrehan...
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rights attorney and it was actually enhanced by the patriot act and the actual charge was that my father and the other members of the holy land were charged with. conspiring to send material support in the form of charity that is in the form of clothes food medicine to palestinians the cac committees which are distribution centers that the prosecutors were claiming were fronts for the language they used is that these were controlled by or worked on behalf of now the interesting thing in the perplexing thing about this argument is that these very same as the committees received funds from our own government agency the usa id and none of these committees were listed as designated terrorist organizations on the department of treasury list so how how was the court able to ignore this fact i mean that the u.s. . had contributed to the exact same charities nor. that is absolutely the question anyone who sat through the first trial which by the way in that it ended in a hung jury the first jury in texas did not fall for for this perplexing argument however the second jury did return all guilty
rights attorney and it was actually enhanced by the patriot act and the actual charge was that my father and the other members of the holy land were charged with. conspiring to send material support in the form of charity that is in the form of clothes food medicine to palestinians the cac committees which are distribution centers that the prosecutors were claiming were fronts for the language they used is that these were controlled by or worked on behalf of now the interesting thing in the...
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rights movement here in america it's also a half how it happened interest in egypt and it will happen again here in the united states once again if we just stay organized and act. if. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
rights movement here in america it's also a half how it happened interest in egypt and it will happen again here in the united states once again if we just stay organized and act. if. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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rights under law thank you so much for joining us thank you megan. and with less than one hundred hours to go the countdown to election night continues but when you head to the ballot box on tuesday don't be surprised when you see names on the election ballot other than president obama and mitt romney there are many other candidates that are vying for a spot in the commander in chief position that may not be getting the same amount of coverage from mainstream news on maryland's ballot for instance there are twenty names among those other hopefuls are libertarian party candidate gary johnson and green party candidate dr jill stein and speaking of those two they'll be going head to head at live at nine pm right here at our studio next monday november fifth as part of the free as part of the free and equal elections foundation second round of third party debates as you may recall our team has hosted. and other a host of other organizations have aired the first round of the base which included constitution parties virgil goode and justice party president
rights under law thank you so much for joining us thank you megan. and with less than one hundred hours to go the countdown to election night continues but when you head to the ballot box on tuesday don't be surprised when you see names on the election ballot other than president obama and mitt romney there are many other candidates that are vying for a spot in the commander in chief position that may not be getting the same amount of coverage from mainstream news on maryland's ballot for...
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civil rights initiative there was some high profile lesbians there was very qualified. other individuals and not one of them said anything you know they should really resign if this is so bad did i have them the pink menace this was actually brought to us courtesy of a woman by the name of joanne smith who was appointed by george herbert walker bush and in the last hours of the george h.w. bush administration as undersecretary of the u.s.d.a. authorize the government to start iraq for office authorized the need companies to start calling what used to be called gristle only useful for dog food or words to that effect start calling this finely ground beef and thus we got pink slime and then she went just a matter of few weeks later i'm sorry i don't have an exact number here but she went to work for beef products inc the company that i just mentioned that you know is giving money to the romney campaign we're just manufacturing slime and she's made over a million bucks there i mean isn't it but i got to tell you tom or her george h. bush has been out of office for a long t
civil rights initiative there was some high profile lesbians there was very qualified. other individuals and not one of them said anything you know they should really resign if this is so bad did i have them the pink menace this was actually brought to us courtesy of a woman by the name of joanne smith who was appointed by george herbert walker bush and in the last hours of the george h.w. bush administration as undersecretary of the u.s.d.a. authorize the government to start iraq for office...
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rights movement the union movement every time you want to challenge the structure of power in this society you've got to do it and that can only do it through a citizens movement at the grassroots and we're beginning to see that. and leo i respect your your your relative pessimism but but i have never seen among the young particularly and i i think what gives me cause for optimism is that i am i see young people all the time people who are between the ages of eighteen twenty five thirty years old they want to make a difference they are determined to make a difference and they want to take back our democracy they want to take back our economy and it's because of them that we are going to see dramatic change. your final thoughts when the final twenty seconds here yes. you can do the really ok thank you very much that'll do it for our special teachin to take back the american dream want to thank our amazing panels even robert heather mcghee leo hindery natalie foster and secretary former secretary robert reich for your great insights one final note this can all seem forbidding after all this
rights movement the union movement every time you want to challenge the structure of power in this society you've got to do it and that can only do it through a citizens movement at the grassroots and we're beginning to see that. and leo i respect your your your relative pessimism but but i have never seen among the young particularly and i i think what gives me cause for optimism is that i am i see young people all the time people who are between the ages of eighteen twenty five thirty years...
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to civil rights to ending the wars in vietnam and iraq yes social media was a tremendous booth for both the boost for both the occupy movement and the arab spring to get people into the streets but it was also just as tremendous a tool for law enforcement in both parts of the world to work to quash those it's as journalist chris hedges points out it's all about criminalizing dissent. tragically the day may come indeed it may already be here when if you plan to protest the corporate takeover of our government drone warfare or intentional or indefinite detention if you are protesting those things you'll find yourself in jail before you even get into the streets seem impossible just ask the people planning protests of the r n c in minneapolis in two thousand and eight the bush administration had them take it out before they could even publicly speak out it's getting more and more difficult and more and more dangerous to launch successful socially transformational movements because the powers that be including the corporations or industries you may be protesting against know ahead of time w
to civil rights to ending the wars in vietnam and iraq yes social media was a tremendous booth for both the boost for both the occupy movement and the arab spring to get people into the streets but it was also just as tremendous a tool for law enforcement in both parts of the world to work to quash those it's as journalist chris hedges points out it's all about criminalizing dissent. tragically the day may come indeed it may already be here when if you plan to protest the corporate takeover of...